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PRESENTATION ON

Women empowerment

………….TEAM MEMBERS…………. 1. Arpit Gupta

2. Abhishek Pandey

3. Abhinav Gupta

4. Anshul Kumar

5. Avi Kumar

Meaning Of Empowerment

• Empowerment refers to increasing the spiritual, political, social, or economic strength of individuals and communities. It often involves the empowered developing confidence in their own capacities.

• In conclusion, we see empowerment as a multi-dimensional social process that helps people gain control over their own lives. It is a process that fosters power in people for use in their own lives, their communities, and in their society by acting on issues that they define as important.

How does it work?

1.IMPROVES IN PERSONAL

KNOWLEDGE

• Explore and trust own thoughts, emotion, desires and

experiences.

• Recognize positive and negative characteristics.

• Set goals and work toward them.

• Know about positive value assertion.

• Knows self through own creative work.

• Credit self for her thoughts, feelings, and actions, etc.

2.SELF – DEFINING

•Create her own definition of herself rather than accept others’ definition of her.

•Views herself as a complete human person.

•Has the courage to try non-traditional behaviors.

•She defines herself as a complete, whole human person, not a helpmate to man, a mother, a housewife, or server of others’ needs, etc.

3.PERSONAL POWER

• Personally strong, not from dominating others, but from their love, trust and faith in themselves and other women.

• It involves being active, assertive, and skillful.

• Do not require support from man to survive.

• Self-governing and positive self-image, etc.

4.AUTHENTICITY

• Be honest without shame.

• Ignore criticisms if you are doing something you enjoy.

• Acting on own values, desires, emotions needs, capabilities to do something positively, etc.

5.CREATIVITY

• Ability to increase diversity in one’s thinking.

• Struggles for authenticity through personal creativity.

• Balance of power conflict, competition, and success in new ways. Especially important is using anger creatively.

• Makes choices and decisions based on knowledge of alternatives leads to concrete creative action.

• Achieving personal freedom, personal identity.

6.PHYSICAL STRENGTH

• Strength, vitality, health, stamina, and fearlessness are needed for women to accomplish their goals.

• Physical power and physical equality with men are also needed.

7.EQUALITY • The right of women and men to live as free

and equal human beings, equality should exist in all areas of life, such as…. – women’s constitutional rights as citizens – work – access to wealth

8.MUTUALITY IN RELATIONSHIPS

• That is women are encouraged to choose relationships

based on mutual respect, understanding, and co-operation and therefore foster mutual growth is possible.

9.ECONOMIC INDEPENDENCE • Women must learn to understand economics and how to

make money. This will enable us to be financially self sufficient and therefore economically independent of men.

10.WOMEN IDENTIFICATION

• To liberate themselves, women must stop selling out

their identities as women by rejecting restrictive gender

roles, stereotypes and by claiming all territory as

women’s territory. Make a own positive identification.

11.FREEDOM FROM OPPRESSION

• Being able to grow and achieve without restrictions in

society. This includes freedom of movement, freedom of

choice, freedom from fear of male violence and freedom to

express one’s ideas and opinions without constraint.

The process of empowering the women

Four of the main processes that could lead to women's empowerment, as defined by the IFAD evaluation, were:

• changes in women's mobility and social interaction

• changes in women's labor patterns

• changes in women's access to and control over resources

• changes in women's control over decision-making.

Women Empowerment Program

• Society for Human Development (SHD) carries out women empowerment program, and its implemented at 2 levels…..

1. Attitudinal change process at local level

2. Constitutional reforms and legislation for equal citizenship for women.

• CEDAW (Convention of Elimination of all kinds of Discrimination against Women) and focus the four sectoral areas……

1. Women’s Political and 2. legal Empowerment

3. Women’s Economic and 4. Social Empowerment.

With out Women Empowerment there are no Rapid Progress in the Nation

• Women have to realize their basic problem

first....empowerment of women helps in raising the standard of

the family that way all the members of the family get better

standards and progress of the nation...

• Today women is the root of the nation so

without empowerment of women the progress of the nation is

not rapid....